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Reducing sugar assessment on three indoor ornamental plants with growth regulators

Ali Salehi Sardoei, Fatemeh Shahadadi, Mojghan Shahdadneghad, Afshar Fallaah Imani, Somyeh Gholamsaahi

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.12692/ijb/4.8.169-174

Int. J. Biosci. 4(8), 169-174. April, 2014. (PDF)

Abstract:

The effect of GibberellicAcidand Benzyladenineon Ficus benjamina, Schefflera arboricola and Dizigotheeca elegantissima plants was evaluated at pot cultivation conditions. This study was performed in three factorial test based on completely randomized design and 4 repeatswith 9 treatments. The aim of this work is to study the effect of foliar application with gibberellic acid (GA3) at 0, 100 and 200 mg.L-1and and benzyladenine (BA) at 0, 100 and 200 mg.L-1 levels. The results showed, Thus Ficus benjamina plants were higher than control plants in all plotstreated with GA3 and Benzyladenine, while treatment of 100 mg.L-1 GA3 had no significant difference with control treatment. Reducing sugars content in Schefflera arboricola plant remained unaffected with 0 mg.L-1 BA + 100 mg.L-1 GA3 treatment, while it was decreased markedly by 100 mg.L-1 BA, 100 mg.L-1 BA + 100 mg.L-1 GA3, 100 mg.L-1 BA + 200 mg.L-1 GA3 and 200 mg.L-1 BA. The treatments of 100 mg.L-1 BA + 100 mg.L-1 GA3, 100 mg.L-1 BA + 200 mg.L-1 GA3and 200 mg.L-1 BA had higher reducing sugars than control and treatments of 200 mg.L-1 GA3, 100 mg.L-1 BA, 200 mg.L-1 BA + 100 mg.L-1 GA3 and 200 mg.L-1 BA + 200 mg.L-1 GA3 had lower reducing sugars than control (no spray).